Social media posts about the book will include the hashtags #ClosedRanks and #WhitehurstCase.

The release was held on November 1, 2018 at the Read Herring Bookstore in downtown Montgomery and was covered by the Montgomery Advertiser, WSFA, and The Crime Report. If you missed the release event or others, the bookstore has autographed copies in stock.

To schedule a signing or book talk, please use the contact form on the About page. While you might think of signings and talks as public events that occur in bookstores or on college campuses, Foster will also schedule invitation-only readings and discussions with book clubs, civic organizations, and school groups.

Though Emily Blejwas’s new book The Story of Alabama in Fourteen Foods, will not be released until July 2019, the curriculum guide that Foster created for the book is available here starting on Friday, March 1. The book, which is being published by the University of Alabama Press, is available for pre-order. Access to the curriculum guide is free.

In 2018, Foster re-designed and coordinated the F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum‘s annual Literary Contest for high school students and college undergrads. To honor the centennial of Scott and Zelda’s first meeting in Montgomery, this year’s theme was “What’s Old Is New,” giving a nod to the daring and innovative spirit of Scott’s and Zelda’s artistic and literary work by seeking out this generation’s brave thinkers. This year’s contest winners have been notified. More information about the winners will be posted on the museum’s website. Information about next year’s contest will posted there in the fall of 2019.

Having been continuously published since 2010, Pack Mule for the New School was re-named Welcome to Eclectic in June 2018. The focus of the blog remains the same, and no previous posts have been removed. The name was changed to more accurately describe writing that is “Deep Southern, Diversified & Re-Imagined.”

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Beginning in October 2018, Welcome to Eclectic is featuring a new weekly column called “Dirty Boots: A Column of Critical Thinking, Border Crossing, and Noblesse Oblige,” which is published on Tuesday afternoons. The column offers a Deep Southern, Generation X perspective on life in the 21st century, whose daily (and political) realities regularly present new quandaries that are often born out of the old quandaries. Whether the issue is education or race or food or economics, weekly posts address the possibilities for change in a region with an earned reputation for resisting it.